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Originally posted by BeefontheBone@Dec 8 2005, 11:46 PM
They're not legal, there's just nobody to enforce the copyright. Yeesh.
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Pretty much the same thing, unless the ESA or whatever its called protects it, which they do with some games that they don't want anyone to download.
Can you purchase the ESA-protected games from ESA?
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Q: What is Abandonware? Is it legal?
A: Wikipedia: "Abandonware is computer software which is no longer being sold or supported by its copyright holder. Alternately, the term is also used for software which is still available, but on which further support and development has been deliberately discontinued." Since the software is no longer sold or supported, the copyright holders are not directly harmed in any way. This is why abandonware sites are, for the most part, ignored by the law. The distribution of copyrighted software however is, and will allways be, illegal!
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Thats from the FAQ. It says that distribtuon of copyright software is illegal, and
the software here is not COPYRIGHTED anymore, making it
legal